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Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
L.G.B. be requested to intimate to the Vestry the general lines on which such communications
are based, for harmonious co-operation between the M.O. and the Sanitary
Authority becomes unnecessarily difficult under the system which at present obtains.
(Signed) FREDK. REDMAN,
February 5th, 1897. Chairman.
The following resolution was passed by your Vestry on the 9th of February,
1897:—
"That the attention of the L.G.B. be called to the Special Committee's
Report adopted by the Vestry on February 9th, and that they be respectfully
requested to consider the same in relation to the Report on Disinfection of December
1st, 1896, already submitted, and that they be further requested to advise the
Vestry whether the method and standard of administration in the Sanitary
Department of this Parish is conducive to the public interest, regard being paid to
the level of poverty and health which already obtains in this District."
To this the Local Government Board replied as follows:—
Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W.,
March 6th, 1897.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 12th ult., enclosiug copy of a report made by a Special Committee
appointed by the Vestry of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, to consider a supplementary
Report on room disinfection, presented to the Vestry by their Medical Officer
of Health on January 12th last, and, in reply, I am to state that the information before
the Board is not sufficient to enable them to advise the Vestry on the questions raised
in the resolution, a copy of which also accompanied your letter.
I am to add that the Board are not aware of any grounds for the statement at the
conclusion of the Special Committee's Report, that it is the practice of the Board to
send to the Medical Officer of Health confidential communications, the contents of which
he is not at liberty to divulge to the Vestry.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) ALFRED D. ADRIAN,
J. A. Johnson, Esq., Assistant Secretary.
Clerk to the Vestry of the Parish of
St. George the Martyr. Southwark.
Copy of Evidence of Medical Officer of Health in support of the London
County Council "London (Falcon Court, Borough) Improvement
Scheme, 1895."
The 111 dwelling-houses which the Council propose in their scheme to sweep
away, cover, in my opinion, an insanitary area. These houses—lining Birdcage Alley,
Falcon Court, Brent's Court, Eve's Place, Red Cross Court, and Maypole Alley—are
approached from the Borough High Street by means of covered passages which are
narrow and funnel-shaped. The Falcon area again is hemmed in on the west, by the
lofty Stanhope, Mowbray, and St. George's model dwellings, as well as by the